A Soft Mechanoluminescent Skin for High‐Resolution Optical Tactile Sensing in Human–Machine Interaction
Yu Feng, Qiaojiao Wang, Yehui Liu, Jiankun Li, Senlin Hou, Xiaomeng Yang, Ziyi Li, Yanji Yi, Meng Chen, Guanglie Zhang, Hao Sun, Wen Jung Li · 2026
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Description
Yu Feng and eleven co-authors build a soft artificial skin that turns touch into light, in this 2026 paper. Soft robots and wearables need touch sensors that are thin, rugged, and sip power. Most designs wire every sensing point, which complicates large skins. Their skin glows where it is pressed, so a camera can read the touch map.
The three-layer skin mixes barium titanate specks, which boost local electric fields under pressure, with zinc sulfide emitters that shine in response. No wiring or bias power is needed at the skin itself. Read by a small camera chip, the sensor reached fine detail near eighty micrometers, answered in thirty milliseconds, and survived over eight thousand press cycles. It could even read handwriting traced on its surface. The authors pitch it for human-machine interfaces.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Yu Feng, Qiaojiao Wang, Yehui Liu, Jiankun Li, Senlin Hou, Xiaomeng Yang, Ziyi Li, Yanji Yi, Meng Chen, Guanglie Zhang, Hao Sun, Wen Jung Li |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 39 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |